DIARY - Saturday 1st December 2007 What do you think could be the worst possible imaginable scenario for an Instructor? What situation could reduce a grown woman to a gibbering wreck? Just close your eyes for a moment and ponder what could cause such earth shattering, mind blowing, fear induced panic. Have you thought? Well I'll tell you. It's Boys... 16 year old boys... not one or two but THREE and all booked in for a CBT on the same day. How could the office do this to me - what had I done to deserve such a fate? I left home for work half dreading the day ahead. A challenge! I can hear the non parents among you saying - well have you never heard the adage 'employ a teenager while they know everything?' would be my reply. Experience has shown 16year olds to be totally without fear, sense or brains and nothing was going to make me think otherwise. So now I offer an apology to all 16 year old male Homosapiens. I had no right to tar you with the same brush, for these were wonderful. Absolutely totally without reservation, little gems. Not just one, not two, but all three! Two of them arrived with their fathers. One bearing a small birthday cake and a knife (it was his 16th birthday that day) - no lethal weapon this; it really was for cutting the sponge. The other boy arrived alone but introduced himself in clear concise prose with a friendly smile. My jaw dropped. They were human! They were all well dressed for motorcycling with thermals and lots of thin layers, they had good stout footwear, they brought their sandwiches and they had actually been studying the Highway Code! Now I expect you all think I am going over the top with all this, but truly I am not. They listened, they took on board, they engaged their brains, they made me review everything I had ever thought about 16year olds. To say they had never met before, by the end of the day they were exchanging telephone numbers and planning to meet when they all got mobile on their new scooters. It was a day in a million, the laughter was genuine, the humour quick fire, lots of good natured ribbing about women; mothers and girlfriends got a lot of stick, I had to defend the sisterhood. Now a comparison of 16year old girls on CBT's would be interesting. But it won't happen will it? There is as much chance of the Calder and Hebble Navigation freezing over as us getting a bunch of girls wanting to ride bikes. Come on ladies - please prove me wrong! Why don't you want to ride bikes?